BRKIOT-2109 – Connecting Oil & Gas Pipelines

Given a chance, how many people in this room would volunteer to be a meteorologist in San Diego? You’d never be wrong!

Inflection point between 2009 and 2010 where the number of connected devices began to out number the connected people. 50 billion “things” by 2020. And this doesn’t include phones and tablets. It’s other smart devices.

Shift in dominant endpoints: from consumers (people) to devices (like sensors and such). This shift demands changes in the network to support this growth.